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Adrian Sutton: Cross Pairing
This evening I stumbled across two interesting posts about alternate layouts for pairing rather than sitting side by side. Firstly Tom Dale talking about Tilde’s corner desk pairing setup (and some of...
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Isabel Drost: Fun little new toy
Yesterday Thilo invited me to attend an “Electronics 101″ workshop including an introduction to soldering that was scheduled to start at 7p.m. this evening at the offices of IN-Berlin e.V.. As part of...
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Bryan Pendleton: Beyond the Uncanny Valley indeed!
Have you seen the new Tintin movie yet?Kevin Kelly is absolutely correct: the best movie-makers have now moved solidly Beyond the Uncanny Valley.I saw the movie in 3D and loved it, but it clearly would...
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Yoav Shapira: Restaurant review: Momofuku Ko
On Friday night I had dinner at Momofuku Ko, an amazing restaurant in New York City. The place is tiny with ~10 seats at a small counter across from the 3 chefs, and that's it. No tables, no other...
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Ted Husted: Keeping Salesforce Implementations on Track with Milestones PM...
A secret to the success of Salesforce CRM is how easy it is to customize and extend. Out of the box, Salesforce provides new users with a world-class framework for enabling collaboration between staff...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: WSO2 ESB 4.0.3 is Out with REST API Support
WSO2 ESB 4.0.3 is now available for download. This contains several bug fixes over WSO2 ESB 4.0.0 and 4.0.2 releases. In addition to that this release comes with the highly anticipated REST API...
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Gimme all resources you have - I can use them!
Exploiting full IO and CPU concurrency when indexing with Apache Lucene During the last year Apache Lucene has been improved an extreme amount with outstanding improvements such as 100 times faster...
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Bryan Pendleton: A few links on the teaching of programming
As I (slowly) emerge from my holiday stupor, another short post on a collection of related topics:CodeAcademy, an interesting new startup backed by Fred Wilson's Union Square Ventures, is seeing...
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Bruce Snyder: How To Add An Existing Git Project to Eclipse
Here's another quick set of notes for myself for posterity. I always clone and build a project on the command line before I import it into the IDE to begin hacking code. Right now I have to handle a...
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Bruce Snyder: Developing Apps for Mac OS X With Objective-C and Cocoa
Even though I've used Macs for over 20 years now, I have never developed a native app for the Mac OS. So over the holiday break, I finally spent some time getting ramped up on Objective-C to develop...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Bootstrapping Debian Unstable
It turns out that the following is all it takes to install Debian Unstable in a chroot jail under Ubuntu, and then to log into that jail as root: apt-get install debootstrap schroot mkdir...
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Davanum Srinivas: Follow a user in Lotus Connections 3.0
One main feature in Lotus Connections 3.0 is the asymmetric follow of someone (like twitter). The API documentation is here. Since sample code is always better here’s a HTTP GET python snippet to...
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Davanum Srinivas: Follow a user in Lotus Connections 3.0
One main feature in Lotus Connections 3.0 is the asymmetric follow of someone (like twitter). The API documentation is here. Since sample code is always better here’s a HTTP GET python snippet to...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-01-04
ChessBase.com – Chess News – A Gross Miscarriage of Justice in Computer Chess (part two) : An amazing article, via Nelson Minar — careful examination of the evolution of chess programs over the past 8...
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Bryan Pendleton: The language of stamps
Here's a great article about the various subtexts and hidden meanings that have, over the years, been conveyed through the selection and positioning of postage stamps on postcards and envelopes.I'm not...
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Ian Boston: Rogue Gadgets
I have long thought one of the problems with OpenSocial is its openness to enable any Gadget based app anywhere. Even if there is a technical solution to the problem of a rogue App in the browser...
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Carlos Sanchez: “From Dev to DevOps” at the Paris JUG next week, FOSDEM...
The year starts with two speaking engagements, about development and DevOps Soirée Devops @ Paris JUG Next week, Tuesday January 10th at the I.S.E.P. Paris An afternoon about DevOps, with Henri Gomez...
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Andrew Savory: Humax PVRs
I have a rather lovely Humax PVR9300T, a digital video recorder that I bought a year or so back. Or, it was lovely, I should say. Just before Christmas, the box started to freeze. Rebooting it didn’t...
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Jon Scott Stevens: Going on 6 months now...
Here is a bit of a status update for the new year: We've been working full steam ahead on Voost, going on 6 months now. In that timeframe, Jeff and I have accomplished an impressive amount of work for...
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